§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will bring up to date, or as nearly up to date as possible, the information contained in his reply on shorthold to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick, on 6 March, Official Report, columns 228–30.
§ Mr. HeseltineUp to 24 April the number of rent registrations where applicants had indicated that their letting was a shorthold is set out in the attached table.
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Number of fair rents registered for shorthold tenancies Rent Registrations LONDON Barking 1 Barnet 18 Bexley 1 Brent 4 Bromley 2 City of London — Camden 8 Croydon 9 Ealing 3 Enfield 4 Greenwich 4 Hackney — Hammersmith 1 Haringey 5 Harrow 6 Havering 1 Hillingdon 5 Hounslow 6 Islington — Kensington and Chelsea — Kingston-upon-Thames l Lambeth — Lewisham — Merton 5 Newham 3 Redbridge 1 Richmond upon Thames 8 Southwark 2 Sutton 2 Tower Hamlet — Waltham Forest 1 Wandsworth 17 Westminster 4 London subtotal 122 REST OF ENGLAND Avon 44 Bedfordshire 7 Berkshire 30 Buckinghamshire 26 Cambridgeshire 22 Cheshire 20 Cleveland 4 Cornwall 49 Cumbria 34 Derbyshire 29 Devon 79
Rent Registrations Dorset 46 Durham 11 East Sussex 60 Essex 64 Gloucestershire 28 Greater Manchester 19 Hampshire 44 Hereford and Worcester 35 Hertfordshire 11 Humberside 19 Isle of Wight 6 Kent 96 Lancashire 32 Leicestershire 17 Lincolnshire 16 Merseyside 9 Norfolk 62 Northumberland 16 Northamptonshire 15 North Yorkkshire 52 Nottinghamshire 24 Oxfordshire 27 Shropshire 17 Somerset 34 South Yorkshire 39 Staffordshire 11 Suffolk 24 Surrey 29 Tyne and Wear 16 Warwickshire 6 West Midlands 17 West Sussex 20 West Yorkshire 53 Wiltshire 16 Rest of England subtotal 1,335 ENGLAND TOTAL 1,457 It should be emphasised, however, that the figures do not represent the number of shorthold lettings taking place for the following reasons first, because the question on the application form is a voluntary one; secondly, because shorthold lettings where a fair rent has already been registered cannot be identified until the rent is re-registered which may not be for up to three years; and, thirdly, because an application for a fair rent need not be made until 28 days after the start of the tenancy in cases where no fair rent is registered and some applications already made by 24 April would still be being processed.